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full screen graphics in vb6? (no window / start menu / taskbar / etc)
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| Mad Scientist Jr 2005-08-30, 6:55 pm |
| I'm writing an arcade game and am pretty far along in VB6 with bitblt,
so if there is a way this can be done without rewriting the entire game
using direct x and/or .NET let me know...
The game draws on the screen bit blitting onto a picturebox. Is there a
way to erase the boundaries of the form (and hide the start menu,
taskbar, etc) so that the game is truly full screen?
Thanks
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| Michael C 2005-08-30, 6:55 pm |
| "Mad Scientist Jr" <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm writing an arcade game and am pretty far along in VB6 with bitblt,
> so if there is a way this can be done without rewriting the entire game
> using direct x and/or .NET let me know...
>
> The game draws on the screen bit blitting onto a picturebox. Is there a
> way to erase the boundaries of the form (and hide the start menu,
> taskbar, etc) so that the game is truly full screen?
Easy. Maximise the form, set control box, min button, max button to false
and delete the caption.
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> Thanks
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| Mad Scientist Jr 2005-08-30, 6:55 pm |
| Thanks for your reply
I've already done that, but I am still getting the little bar at the
top that the caption would normally be displayed at. I want to
literally take over the whole screen, if at all possible. It isn't a
life or death thing but it would be nice. Also I would like to
programatically hide the taskbar. I have seen games that just pop into
full screen mode (MAME for instance has this option), but maybe it
isn't available in VB6 using bitblt onto a regular for? But if it is, I
would like to do it.
Thanks again
Michael C wrote:[color=darkred]
> "Mad Scientist Jr" <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1125437127.610628.49970@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
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> Easy. Maximise the form, set control box, min button, max button to false
> and delete the caption.
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| vbgeek 2005-08-30, 6:55 pm |
| There is a way - set the form's borderstyle property to 0 at design
time. This eliminates the caption bar completely.
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| Mad Scientist Jr 2005-08-30, 6:55 pm |
| Dude, you rule
Thanks so much
vbg wrote:
> There is a way - set the form's borderstyle property to 0 at design
> time. This eliminates the caption bar completely.
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| Mike Williams 2005-08-30, 6:55 pm |
| "Mad Scientist Jr" <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1125444090.084514.149130@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Dude, you rule
Right. I see. Apparently "the Dude rules"? Presumably that's a colloquialism of some kind? Is it
good or bad?
I think I'll go to bed and leave this stuff for the youngsters ;-)
Mike
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| Stefan Berglund 2005-08-30, 9:55 pm |
| On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:37:23 +0100, "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyandCoke.com>
wrote:
in <df2qk3$l1b$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>
>"Mad Scientist Jr" <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1125444090.084514.149130@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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>Right. I see. Apparently "the Dude rules"? Presumably that's a colloquialism of some kind? Is it
>good or bad?
>
>I think I'll go to bed and leave this stuff for the youngsters ;-)
>
>Mike
Quite good. It's an equation with greatness as in everything the Dude says is
gospel.
---
Stefan Berglund
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| Michael C 2005-08-31, 3:55 am |
| "vbg" <greg114497@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> There is a way - set the form's borderstyle property to 0 at design
> time. This eliminates the caption bar completely.
Oh yeah, by the way, don't forget to set the borderstyle property to none
;-)
Michael
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| Mad Scientist Jr 2005-08-31, 6:55 pm |
| To quote the movie, "The Dude abides"
Stefan Berglund wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:37:23 +0100, "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyandCoke.com>
> wrote:
> in <df2qk3$l1b$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>
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>
> Quite good. It's an equation with greatness as in everything the Dude says is
> gospel.
>
> ---
> Stefan Berglund
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| vbgeek 2005-08-31, 6:55 pm |
| No problem. HTH :)
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